Category Archives: Travel

In 1989, Maine’s Supreme Court took away our right to enjoy our ocean intertidal zones. Looking all the way back to when Maine was part of Massachusetts, the Justices ruled that our opportunities to enjoy the intertidal zones are limited to fishing, fouling, and navigation. Thankfully, Orlando Delogu has written a new book, Maine’s Beaches […]

We fell in love with Monhegan 9 years ago during a day trip there with Maine Audubon. And we’ve been returning every year since then, initially for 3 days, and now for a week in May, ideal time for birding. We were there two weeks ago and the birding was spectacular, but we really love […]

So near and not so far away. While Linda and I have visited a number of places in Maine featured in Lois Stailing’s book, Nearaway Places, I was surprised by how many we’d never seen. Time to get to those wonderful places! Lois focuses on scenic and historical places, both of which are plentiful in […]

Cobb’s Pierce Pond Camps is a wonderful place and not just because the camps are in a beautiful place and the Cobb family are great hosts. They are blessed by guests who love the camps so much that they’ve stepped up to protect the camps and the entire watershed. So far the Maine Wilderness Watershed […]

Harrowing, frightening, astonishing – I just can’t come up with the right adjective to describe this journey on a dilapidated schooner. Author Maxwell Taylor Kennedy subtitled his book Sea Change, as “A Man, A Boat, A Journey Home.” That is very much understated for this calamitous voyage. Published by IslandPort Press of Yarmouth, this is […]

Rainbow River Lodge in Alaska is an amazing place, with nice cabins, a beautiful lodge, and great food. But the biggest attraction is fishing. I took my wife Linda there once. Each day, we were flown out to various rivers to catch rainbow trout or salmon. I took Linda in August because I especially love […]

New Zealand has suffered an environmental disaster that’s severely impacted everything from water supplies to fish. Throughout a recent edition of New Zealand’s Fish & Game magazine, this sad story was told. Unregulated expansion of dairy and other farms, along with lots of development, has harmed their waterways, negatively impacting the environment. For example, 20% […]

Linda and I love Bradford Camps in Maine’s great north woods, and we eagerly await their annual newsletter, which arrived today. From news about its very successful bear hunting season (15 bears taken by 19 hunters) to news about the successful restoration of Arctic Char in Big Reed Pond, to their fascinating video of their […]

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George Smith

George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters.
Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014.
In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.